Baba Aye's

Dear IBK, Thanx for yours below. Your views are not without merit. I think the issue though boils down to problematizing the problem from a conscious point of departure hinged on solution-seeking. Whatever is made could be destroyed. The problems you identify are human-made. They can and will be changed by human beings. Different countries have different sets of problems amidst some universal problems of each age. History shows us not only how we got to where we are, but hinged on a concrete analysis of the concrete situation emerging from it....and most importantly: taking systematic actions to unravel a systemic series of crises like Nigeria/Africa's, we will transcend where we are. It might not be in our life time, it might be. But if it ever will be, what we do even today could turn out more crucial in changing our fate as a people than we could ever imagine right now. For example, would Martin Luther or Rosa Parks had thought that less than half a century later their dream wou...

"Good is good; evil is evil. There can't be any moral justification for piracy in modern times." Dear Ola Kassim, Taking even your words as gospel truth; the second sentence of the (with all due respect), grossly naive formulation to say the least, contradicts the first. If good = good (no plus or minus) and bad = bad (simply the same thing as with the former), then what is good and what is bad is eternal, existing from whatever, whenever and wherever humans gained the knowledge of 'good' and 'bad' (some would say after Eve gave Adam that sweet fruit from the tree of knowledge...) and so will be until the endlessness of eternity, period. In that sense, what made piracy good (and mark you the powers that be then just as those of today never accepted it as good, even when they used pirates to fight their proxy wars in the Caribbeans -especially England vs Spain-), at a point in time but not now. Or to place what is implicit in your argument in a more explici...

One can't but chuckle at an assertion that the Yoruba in Brazil could date their presence here to pre-historic times. In this age when knowledge on issues such as this is a mere touch of a button away, for an intellectual to come to such conclusions is indeed very funny. There are facts that make in very clear that there was no Yoruba here before the 1540s. The Afro-Brazilian museum here is a must-visit for any African in Sao Paulo in my opinion. And one of the artifacts that got to me most was a letter from a freed slave who had gone back to Lagos, informing those here of the situation he met back at home and urging them to hold firmly to their tradtional faith. Candomble does have several roots including those from the Ewe, Fon, Congo-Bantu and (especially) Angola. The Orixas are however largely drawn from Yoruba mythology, and as well strong currents within its practice. I would however want to say, to the best of my knowledge (and I daresay, I have made quite a few 'journey...